Two Wonderful Poems by Sacha Hutchinson

 

Fear

 

An insect that creeps

slips byways of the body

unsettles, follows the unknown.

 

But there is certitude in a list

to organize the daily round

first I draw

this discipline a description

to set things right

life is long and valuable

if you know how to use it.

 

Next, I cycle to the lighthouse

submerge in winter sea

pull clothes over half wet limbs.

 

When back on my bike

head sticks between gears

crank back, free wheel

breathe deep and clean.

 

Delicious beauty

again and again

a wren hops hedges

sun streams low.

 

To live only for a day.

On my bike

 

Somehow happy

on my bike

repeat multitudes of mantras

huff uphill

stop to pant at a

summit’s stillness

 

Then skim past fern

blurs of green and grey

Goldfinch flock in charms

as they flick and fly

 

Stuck in a warm sector

of soft Atlantic air

drip and drizzle

 

 

But sweetness soon killed

by a dirty dark diesel

then another

and another

and another…

 

Sacha  Hutchinson is living in Galway, Ireland. She recently started writing poetry, attends a weekly poetry class and has read at the Over The Edge open reading. Her poetry has appeared in Ropes 2018 and in the  2018 spring edition of Skylight 47 and  the 2019 autumn edition of The Curlew. She was shortlisted for Poetry for Patients 2018 and 2019. She was longlisted for Over the Edge  New Writer of the Year 2018 and shortlisted in 2019. She was accepted for the spring edition of Skylight 47 in 2021.